I started taking an amateaur illustration class, yesterday we learned a bit about watercolors so I decided to give it a go drawing Pita, my dog.

It's messy but I like it.

I recently had to set up a new Mac for programming. I took the opportunity to do what a colleague suggested me to do a long time ago: ditch gpg, gpg-agent, and such in favor of 1Password. This setup is much simpler and I believe more secure than what I was doing before.

Just a quick update: I know I haven't being posting in a while, between end-of-year work, holidays, flu, and back to work I didn't have much time. Will go back to posting some tech stuff and drawing stuff soon.

The "last" chapter (there are actually two more, but they are more about applying creativity to other fields and some concluding remarks on finding the artist within you) of the "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain" book by Betty Edwards focuses on perceiving lights and shadows, also known as seeing things in terms of "values".

This was another mind blowing chapter for me, I always regarded this part of drawing as something subconscious, and also simply I couldn't really understand how to use lighter or darker tones to give the idea of tridimensionality.

Last week I worked on the second last chapter of Betty Edwards' book "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain". This chapter focused on drawing a face by profile. The book asks to draw a person from life but I couldn't find anyone wanting to model for me so I drew Taylor Swift from a picture. I know it's not the same thing, but for now that will do.